粉墨登场
fěn mò dēng chǎng
Pinyin

Definition

粉墨登场
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fěn mò dēng chǎng
  1. to make up and go on stage (idiom); to embark on a career (esp. in politics or crime)

Related Words (20)

互粉
hù fěn
  1. 1 to follow each other's accounts (on Weibo etc)
墨迹
mò jì
  1. 1 ink marks
  2. 2 original calligraphy or painting of famous person
登场
dēng chǎng
  1. 1 to go on stage
  2. 2 fig. to appear on the scene
  3. 3 used in advertising to mean new product
登录
dēng lù
  1. 1 to register
  2. 2 to log in
登陆
dēng lù
  1. 1 to land
  2. 2 to come ashore
  3. 3 to make landfall (of typhoon etc)
  4. 4 to log in (frequently used erroneous variant of 登錄|登录[dēng lù])
粉红
fěn hóng
  1. 1 pink
粉丝
fěn sī
  1. 1 bean vermicelli
  2. 2 mung bean starch noodles
  3. 3 Chinese vermicelli
  4. 4 cellophane noodles
  5. 5 CL:把[bǎ]
  6. 6 fan (loanword)
  7. 7 enthusiast for sb or sth
刊登
kān dēng
  1. 1 to carry a story
  2. 2 to publish (in a newspaper or magazine)
喜来登
Xǐ lái dēng
  1. 1 Sheraton (hotel chain)
墨
Mò
  1. 1 surname Mo
  2. 2 abbr. for 墨西哥[Mò xī gē], Mexico
墨家
Mò jiā
  1. 1 Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子[Mò zǐ]
墨水
mò shuǐ
  1. 1 ink
  2. 2 CL:瓶[píng]
墨尔本
Mò ěr běn
  1. 1 Melbourne, Australia
墨西哥
Mò xī gē
  1. 1 Mexico
墨镜
mò jìng
  1. 1 sunglasses
  2. 2 CL:隻|只[zhī],雙|双[shuāng],副[fù]
奶粉
nǎi fěn
  1. 1 powdered milk
小粉
xiǎo fěn
  1. 1 (wheat) starch
  2. 2 amylum
拉登
Lā dēng
  1. 1 (Osama) bin Laden (1957-2011), leader of Al Qaeda
摩登
mó dēng
  1. 1 modern (loanword)
  2. 2 fashionable
攀登
pān dēng
  1. 1 to climb
  2. 2 to pull oneself up
  3. 3 to clamber
  4. 4 to scale
  5. 5 fig. to forge ahead in the face of hardships and danger

Idioms (19)

一步登天
yī bù dēng tiān
  1. 1 reaching heaven in a single bound (idiom); (esp. with negative: don't expect) instant success
墨守成规
mò shǒu chéng guī
  1. 1 hidebound by convention (idiom)
从善如登，从恶如崩
cóng shàn rú dēng , cóng è rú bēng
  1. 1 doing good is like a hard climb, doing evil is like an easy fall (idiom)
捷足先登
jié zú xiān dēng
  1. 1 the quick-footed climb up first (idiom)
  2. 2 the early bird catches the worm
  3. 3 first come, first served
挥毫洒墨
huī háo sǎ mò
  1. 1 to wield a writing brush (idiom)
桃腮粉脸
táo sāi fěn liǎn
  1. 1 rosy-cheeked (idiom)
比登天还难
bǐ dēng tiān hái nán
  1. 1 lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. extremely difficult
  3. 3 far from an easy task
浓墨重彩
nóng mò zhòng cǎi
  1. 1 thick and heavy in colors
  2. 2 to describe sth in colorful language with attention to detail (idiom)
无事不登三宝殿
wú shì bù dēng sān bǎo diàn
  1. 1 lit. One doesn't visit a temple without a cause. (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to visit sb with an ulterior motive (esp. to ask for sth)
  3. 3 having a hidden agenda
登堂入室
dēng táng rù shì
  1. 1 from the main room, enter the inner chamber (idiom)
  2. 2 to go to the next level
  3. 3 to attain a higher level
登庸人才
dēng yōng rén cái
  1. 1 to employ talent (idiom)
登高望远
dēng gāo wàng yuǎn
  1. 1 to stand tall and see far (idiom); taking the long and broad view
  2. 2 acute foresight
粉墨登场
fěn mò dēng chǎng
  1. 1 to make up and go on stage (idiom); to embark on a career (esp. in politics or crime)
粉身碎骨
fěn shēn suì gǔ
  1. 1 lit. torn body and crushed bones (idiom)
  2. 2 fig. to die horribly
  3. 3 to sacrifice one's life
规矩绳墨
guī ju shéng mò
  1. 1 compasses, set square and straight line marker (idiom); fig. established standard
  2. 2 norms
  3. 3 criteria
词人墨客
cí rén mò kè
  1. 1 sb of literary abilities (idiom)
近朱者赤，近墨者黑
jìn zhū zhě chì , jìn mò zhě hēi
  1. 1 those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained black (idiom)
  2. 2 you are the product of your environment
近朱近墨
jìn zhū jìn mò
  1. 1 one is judged by the company one keeps (idiom)
难于登天
nán yú dēng tiān
  1. 1 harder than climbing to heaven (idiom)

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